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St. George Trip - Spending Time with Mom & Dad

11/21/2020

 
​I was really glad that I was able to spend a few days with my parents after going to Don’s funeral. I really needed that time to just be with my parents without other distractions. Madeline loved spending time with each of them either playing with toys in the house or walking to the park and playing there. I was able to run once and bike twice with my dad. We took advantage of the gravel bikes and did Snow Canyon one day and then rode Turkey Farm road and went a little longer to connect with Snow Canyon. That was a really long bike ride but a lot of fun to do with my dad. I loved spending some quiet moments with my parents at home, eating good food and binge watching The Chosen. It was a trip I didn’t know I needed but realized after how much it helped me to heal and feel whole.

​LEAVING ON A JET PLANE 
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​MADELINE WITH GRANDMA AND GRANDPA
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RUNNING AND BIKING WITH MY DAD
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Shooting Guns with Grandpa Al

5/30/2020

 
On Al’s last day in town we decided to head up to Woodland Park to go shooting. We actually got Madeline to shoot Candace’s rifle with Mike. She actually liked shooting with Mike, and it gave us an opportunity to teach her a few simple things about gun safety. She was so good about keeping her ear protection on the entire time everyone was shooting. Our kids love shooting so much that there was never a dull moment when no one was shooting either the rifles, handguns, or shot guns. The girls loved my new rifle and spent a great deal of their time shooting with that beautiful gun. We introduced Emma to my new handgun and although she was a little nervous at first, she ended up liking it. Al even gave the kids some advice about shooting as he was still a pretty good shot. He was wearing his class of ‘62 West Point hat. When he took the handgun, he hit multiple bullseyes. After all these years, he’s still got it. Can do ’62!  I did not grow up around guns so getting into shooting has taken me some time. We don’t want our kids to be afraid of guns in their youth. We want them to know how to handle a gun so that they will respect it, be safe with it, and know how to use it in an emergency. As they say, a family that shoots together stays together.
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Garden of the Gods with Grandpa Al

5/29/2020

 
​We always love any excuse to go and walk around Garden of the Gods together. It had been a few years since Al had been there, so we rounded up all the kids and headed on over before the afternoon thunderstorm arrived. We got there at the perfect time. The weather was cooler, and it only sprinkled a tiny bit while we were on our walk. Madeline had fun running up and down the paved walkway, collecting a variety of rocks along the way. We made it pretty much all the way around the path before it started raining. By the time we got back in the car it started to pour. What luck that was. I was happy that I managed to get all five kids to come on our little adventure. The beauty of this place never ceases to amaze me.
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cherished moments with grandpa al

5/27/2020

 
​We had a blast spending time with Grandpa Al for the few days that he visited with us. I loved watching Madeline get to know Grandpa again after he had been gone for the past 1 ½ years serving a temple mission in Taiwan. The two of them did puzzles, sang songs, and just had a blast together. 
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Trip to Utah

7/23/2018

 
While Mike was busy doing his reserve duty in California, I took the kids to Utah so that we could spend the week with Grandma Anne and Grandpa Franz in Orem. We spent the week chilling at the condo watching America's Got Talent and playing games, biking up the Murdock trail, trying our luck at an Escape Room at Getout games downtown Provo, running up Provo Canyon, attending a summer music concert at the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, having fun at the nickel arcade, and taking a tour of the BYU campus with Andrew. It was a fun week of adventure, relaxing, and good times with the grandparents. 
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